Another fine example of why UI design is crucial in any user facing application.

Why do we even have that lever?!

Minor oops moment there.

wait if a nuclear missle or even an atomic one was heading for hawaii what would be the point of alerting people? if it was an ICBM there would also be little point in that as well.

When it's made by the lowest bidder. Anyone with a half working brain would have put in a dropdown menu, just for tests.

Cheapest not necessarily means dumbest, imho.

And that it doesn't even appear to prompt to confirm you actually want to send out a real alert!

Unfortunately, Trumps' red button doesn't have a "test" feature..

“Shall we play a game?” (1983)

Have you given Hawaii’s Emergency ­Agency a shout?